Railway-car.



No, 773,470. PATENTED OCT. 25, 1904. J. H. BRUCE.

RAILWAY GAR.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.13, 1904. N0 MODEL. ZSHEETS-SHEET l.

PATENTED OCT. 25, 1904.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2 N0 MODEL.

No. 773,470. A p Patented October 25,1904.

UNTTED STATES PATENT OEErcE.

JOSEPH H. BRUCE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE COMBINED LIQUIDTANK & FREIGHT CAR COMPANY, OF HURON, SOUTH DAKOTA, A CORPORATION OFSOUTH DAKOTA.

RAILWAY-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 773,470, dated October25, 1904.

Application filed January 13, 1904. Serial No. 188,840. (No model.)

T all wh m i m y con ern: pump-handle forming a part of said water- Beit known that I,JosEPH H. BRUCE, a citisupplying means. Zen of theUnited States of America, andaresi- As seen in the views, 1 indicatesthe car- 5 dent of Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have body, which isconstructed in a well-known invented certain new and usefullmprovementsway with slatted sides, and 2 represents the in Railway-Cars, of whichthe following is a car-platform, while 3 represents a pluralityspecification. of closed metal tanks supported by said plat- Thisinvention relates to certain improveform at opposite sides thereof, asindicated in 55 ments in railway-cars, and more particularly Fig. 2,said tanks having their upper parts in that class of such cars, as areprimarily de embedded in the said platform and having ensignedforthecarriage ortransportation ofcat .larged or deeper central portionsextended tle or live stock; and the object of the invention down withinthe space below the platform and is to provide a car'of this generalcharacter of between the trucks 5 5 of the car, the end 60 asimple andinexpensive nature which shall portions l of said tanks 3 3' being madecombe especially well adapted for use by reason paratively shallow, asindicated in Fig. 1, so of being adapted for use in connection with asto be capable of being carried out to the freight of various other kindsand'also by ends of the car Within the platform 2. The reason ofbeingprovided with improved means tank is provided with a filling-inlet6 adjacent 5 for carrying water and supplying the same to to an end ofthe car, or two such inlets may the live stock or cattle in transit, sothat it is be provided at opposite sides of the car and not required tostop the train when it is dein any convenient position, and at thedeeper sired to water said stock or cattle. central portion of the tanks3 3 they are pro- The invention consists in certain novel feavided withoutlets 6, as seen in Fig. 1, at which 7 tures of the construction,combination, and outlets their contents may be withdrawn. A arrangementof the several parts of the imsiphon connection is also provided topermit proved stock orcattle car, whereby certain the contents of onetank to be withdrawn at important advantages are attained and the detheoutlet of the other and also to permit of vice is rendered cheaper,simpler, and otherfilling one tank with liquid through the inlet 75 wisebetter adapted and more convenient for of the other tank, and thissiphon connection use, all as will be hereinafter fully set forth. isshown in Fig. 2 and comprises a pipe 26,

The novel features of the invention will be extended between the deepercentral portions carefully defined in the claims. of the tanks 3 3, withan end portion extended In the accompanying drawings, which serve Withineach tank and provided with a down- 30 to illustrate my invention,Figure 1 is a parwardly-bent extremity 27, opening adjacent tial sideelevation, partly in section, and showto the bottom of the tank. By thisarrangeing astock or cattle car provided with my imment the liquidcontents of onetank will be provement. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectiontaken carried through the pipe 26 into the other through the centralportion of the car at the tank, so that both tanks may be filled or emp-5 sill and showing the arrangement of liquidtied in unison and throughone inlet or outlet. 4 carrying-tanks supported in said sill. Fig. 3 Atone end of the car-body 1 is extended a is a partial end view showingcertain details vertical pipe 19, as seen in Figs. 1 and 3, and of thewater-supplying means to be hereinthis pipe has its lower end extendedinto the after referred to. Fig. 4 is an enlarged secend portion 4 ofone of the tanks 3 3 and is 9 tional detail view showing certainfeatures of carried along said horizontal end portion, as thewater-supplying means to be hereinafter indicated in dotted lines inFig. 1, to the deeper referred to, and Fig. 5 is'a partial plan viewcentral part of said tank 3, where its extremshowing the arrangement ofthe detachable ity 20- is bent downward, so that the open mouth of thepipe is adjacent to the bottom of said deeper central portion and isadapted to draw ofi the liquid contents of the two tanks. Being arrangedin this way, it will be seen that substantially the entire contents ofboth tanks maybe withdriuvn through said pipe 19.

At the end of the car and at the upper end. of pipe 19 is formed achamber 8, having a double door formed of a section 9, forming a part ofthe car-roof and hinged thereto and adapted to be opened to affordaccess to said chamber, and a section 10 hinged at its upper part to theedge of section 9 and also adapted to be opened, so as to afford accessto said chamber at the end oi the car, this section 10 being adapted toclose said chamber 8 at the end of the car.

The upper end of pipe 19 is extended through the floor of the chamber 8and within said chamber communicates with the barrel 7 of a pump havinga pump-rod 11, the upper end of which is provided with two circular orrounded projections or enlargements 12 12, as clearly seen in Figs. 1and 5, between which enlargements is adapted to be engaged in adetachable manner a pump-handle 17, pivoted at 18 to the wall of thechamber 8 and adapted when engaged between said enlargements 12 12 to bemoved pivotally in a vertical direction for the operation of thepump-rod to draw water from the tanks 3 3 through pipe 19. Theenlargements 12 have, as herein shown, adjacent convex surfaces tofacilitate the pivotal movement of the handle 17, and said handle isformed at one side with laterally-directed arms 13 13, between which isa slotted passage 1a to receive the portion of the rod 11 betweenenlargements 12 12, the end of said passage communicating with a slot15, extended lengthwise in the handle and wherein the rod 11 is adaptedto move when the handle is worked pivotally. Thehandle 17 is of suchalength that when engaged with the rod 11 its extremity projects outsidechamber 8, and in order to permit the said chamber to be closed it isnecessary to detach the handle from rod 11. \l'hen detached from the rod11, the handle 17 is permitted to drop to the inclined position (shownin Fig. 1) to permit the chamber to be closed up. \Vhen it, is desiredto connect the handle with the rod 11, it is only necessary to raise thehandle sufficiently to permit the portion between enlargements 12 12 tobe engaged in passage 1st, whereupon the handle is moved laterally untilthe rod is engaged in the longitiulinal slot 15 of the bandle, whereuponthe pump may be operated. To detach the handle, a reverse movement ofthe parts is employed.

From the pump-barrel 7 extends a discharge-pipe 22, the lower end ofwhich is adapted to discharge the liquid drawn from tanks 3 3 into atrough 21, extended along one side of the car between the end wall atwhich I l l l l the pump is located and the car-door at that side of thecar-body. At the opposite side of the car-door at that side of the bodyis a similar tank 21, and upon the other side of the car a similararrangement of troughs is provided which I have not shown in detail,although in Fig. 3 one of said troughs eorre spondingin position to thetrough 21 is shown in end elevation at 21.

At the end of trough 21 adjacent to the cardoor is a downwardly-extendedpipe 23, the upper end of which communicates with the trough 21 at thebottom thereof, and said pipe 23 is extended down beside the car-doorto.a point below the platform 2, where the pipe is bent horizontally, asseen at 2A, and is carried along beneath the door to the opposite sidethereof, at which point it is bent upward, as seen at 25. and communieates at its upper end with the bottom of tank 21 in a way similar tothat in which the opposite end has communication with trough 21. By thisarrangement, it will be seen that when water is supplied to trough 21from the pipe 22 said water will also be supplied to trough 21 by way ofpipe connection 23, 24c, and 25, and the troughs 21 and 21 being at thesame level the water will stand at the same level in each trough. Thetroughsat the opposite side of the car will be similarly connected by apipe bent around the car-door at that side, so that the water suppliedto those troughs will stand at the same level in each trough, andbetween the correspondingly-located troughs 21 and 21" at opposite sidesof the said end of the car-body is extended a pipe connection 28, theends of which communicate with the bottoms of the respective troughs, sothat the water supplied to trough 21 will be supplied through said pipeconnection to the troughs at the other side of the car-body in a waysimilar to that in which water is supplied to trough 21". By thisarrangement it will be seen that water may be pumped from the tanks 3 3to till the troughs 21 21 21", &c., from which the stock or cattledrink, and this may be accomplished by a trainman in a comparativelyshort time and while the train is in motion, so that it is not essentialto stop the train for such purposes as tilling the troughs. It will alsobe seen that since the tanks 3 3 are below the platform they arealtogether out of the way and add to the strength and stability of thestructure and may be made in capacities to hold a great quantity ofwater su'tlicient to supply the stock or cattle during a long tripwithout replenishing. In this position the tanks 3 3 are altogether outof the way of the trainmen traversing the car-roofs, and a singlepumping device serves to supply all of the troughs of the car to whichit is applied. It will also be seen that the car may be used for liquidfreight which may be contained within the tanks 3 2), so that oil orother liquids may be carried in one or both of said tanks, so that thecar constructed according to my invention is further adapted for usewithout lessening in any way its advantages as a freight or stock car.It will also be obvious from the above description that the device iscapable of some modification without material departure from theprinciples and spirit of the invention. and for this reason I do notwish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise form andarrangement of the several parts of the device herein set forth.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. A railway-car comprisinga body having troughs and having, at one of its ends, a chamber providedwith a door located at the end of the car and adapted to be opened toafford access to said chamber, a liquid-tank supported beneath the carand a pumping device located in said chamber and having pipe connectionswith the liquid-tank and with the troughs, said pumping devicecomprising a pump-rod and a handle pivotally mounted in the chamber atthe end of the car and having means for detachable connection with thepump-rod and adapted, when so engaged with the pump-rod, to extend withits free end outside of the chamber and when disconnected from saidpump-rod being adapted to be housed within the chamber to permit thedoor thereof to be closed.

2. A railway-car comprising a body having troughs, a platform on whichthe body is supported, liquid-tanks supported below the platform andextended lengthwise along opposite sides of the car, a pumping devicehaving a pipe connection with one tank and with the troughs of thecar-body and adapted for withdrawing water from said tank and supplyingthe same to the troughs of the car-body and a siphon connection extendedfrom one tank to the other and adapted to draw water from one tank andsupply it to that tank with which the pumping device has pipeconnection.

3. A railway-car comprising a body having troughs, a platform on whichthe body is supported, a liquid tank supported below the platform andextended lengthwise thereof with shallow end portions extended above thebolsters and a deeper central part extended down between the trucks, anda pumping device having a pipe connection with the troughs of thecar-body and also having a pipe connection with the tank which extendsdown within and along the shallow end portion of said tank and has adownwardly-bent end portion extended adjacent to the deeper centralportion of the tank for withdrawing liquid from said tank and supplyingthe same to the troughs of the car-body.

4. A railway-car comprising a body having a door at its side, troughsextended horizontally at opposite sides of the door and at simivicehaving pipe connections with said liquidtank and also with one of thetroughs and adapted, when operated, to draw water from the liquid-tankand supply the same to the said trough with which said pumping devicehas pipe connection.

5. A railway-car having troughs at opposite sides and at similar levels,a liquid-tank supported beneath the car, a pumping device having pipeconnections with said tank and also with a trough at one side of the carand adapted, when operated, to draw water from the tank and supply thesame to said trough and a pipe connection extended across one end of thecar and having opposite ends communicating with the lower parts oftroughs at opposite sides of the car and adapted to supply water fromone of said troughs to the other, one of the troughs with which saidlastnamed pipe connection has communication being the trough with whichthe pumping device has pipe connection.

6. A railway-car comprising a body having a door in its side, troughsextended at opposite sides of the door and at similar levels,liquid-tanks supported below the platform and extended lengthwise alongopposite sides of the car, a pipe connection extended across thecar-door and having ends communicating with the lower portions of therespective troughs at opposite sides of said door, a pumping devicehaving pipe connections with one of said troughs at opposite sides ofthe cardoor and with one of said liquid-tanks beneath the car andadapted, when operated, to draw water from said liquid-tank and supplythe same to said trough and a siphon connection extended from oneliquid-tank to the other and adapted to draw water from one tank andsupply it to that tank with which the pumping device has pipeconnection.

Signed at Chicago this 20th day of Decem- IOC TIO

